Blissful Heavenly Maiden has been organizing the festival since he came back. He is so busy that even outsiders like Fairy Han Yu are used.
"Thunderclap Temple's order? All five Golden Immortal must obey orders?"
Listening to Fairy Han Yu's return, Maitreya Body and Azure Maiden became more and more puzzled, and at the same time, the uneasiness in their hearts became stronger.
"What exactly do you want to do?"
"It seems that the entire Western Continent secular disciples are being mobilized to go to the Buddhist temple to participate in the ceremony."
"So big?" Azure Maiden sounded surprised, but his face became more serious, "This is not a battle that Jile can pull off."
"It's true that Blissful Heavenly Maiden is not the main one, those Thunderclap Temple people are here to arrange the festival."
This is bad news.
Maitreya Body vaguely feels that this matter is related to Earth Emperor Corpse, and may even be related to the resurrection of Earth Emperor Corpse.
"It's best to destroy the festival----" Maitreya Body thought for a few times and said to Azure Maiden.
Azure Maiden nodded, did not object, and just asked, "How to destroy it?"
"How long until the festival?"
"I think their plan is to wait until other places are ready, and the time is set to be sixty days later."
"Sixty days----We can't fight head-on." Maitreya Body pondered for a moment and slowly analyzed Azure Maiden, "Even if we can subdue Blissful Heavenly Maiden, we can't hide it from those Bodhisattva, or even Earth Emperor Corpse and others."
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This is not unfounded. This festival has made the entire Western Continent move. Earth Emperor Corpse, Lu Mo and others may have been watching.
Solving Blissful Heavenly Maiden cannot prevent the festival from taking place, and it is easy to expose oneself. The risk is too great.
"What should we do?"
Maitreya Body was silent for a while, couldn't help but reveal a wry smile on his face, and slowly shook his head.
To be honest, he couldn't find any solution.
There are too few resources that he can mobilize now. The entire Western Continent is someone else's territory, and Grand Array of Heavenly Stars cannot be used anymore.
In the entire Western Continent, only the people from Jade Snow Mountain and Moonlight Mountain are considered his own. Their strength cannot even be compared to Blissful Heavenly Maiden, let alone Thunderclap Temple.
It is really difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.
"There is no way to hide inside Jade Snow Mountain." Unable to think of a way, Maitreya Body didn't want to sit still and simply said, "I'm going to go outside to inquire and see what's going on."
Azure Maiden nodded neatly. "Then I will be at Jade Snow Mountain to see what Hundred Flowers is going to do."
Maitreya Body left Jade Snow Mountain and did not go to the center of Jade Pool. Instead, he deliberately stayed away from Blissful Heavenly Maiden and others, found a mortal city, and settled down.
He just thought about it for a while, and then realized that if he wanted to break the situation, he might really have to take the mass route. Whether it is Xizhou Yaochi or Leiyin Temple, they are essentially Shinto practices, and the key points actually lie in the ordinary people like Xizhou.
Apart from this, he has no other way to break the current powerless situation.
This city Maitreya Body is known, and is called Flowing Wave City. It is located on the border of Thunderclap Temple and Jade Pool, and is close to the Xuanwei Sea.
At that time, Zheng Fa escaped from Thunderclap Temple, passed by this city, and worked as a monk in the Buddhist temple in the city for a few days.
In his impression, Flowing Wave City is considered a medium-sized city in Thunderclap Temple, with a population of more than 20,000, and ordinary life is pretty decent. Western Continent The land is fertile, and Thunderclap Temple's rule is even more stable. Even if the common people are willing to support Buddha Ancestor with money, they will not have to worry about food and drink.
In Zheng Fa's memory, Flowing Wave City, which is located on the border, has quite prosperous trade, and the people in the city seem to be in good spirits.
But this time Maitreya came and found that everything had changed.
Most of the shops on the street were closed, and the steps were covered with dust, as if they hadn't been open for a long time.
There were only a few scattered pedestrians on the side of the road, each of them with a sallow complexion and two deep dimples on their cheeks.
Their steps were slow, as if they were trying very hard, and they didn't look at the road or other people at all. They just stared into space, and sometimes whispered as if no one was watching.
Maitreya Body felt inexplicably heavy. After walking for a while, he found a man lying on the ground at the corner of the street. When he got closer, he found that the man was dead and had a thick white maggot squirming in his mouth.
Those who passed by seemed to be accustomed to it and didn't even look at it.
Maitreya Body stopped, opened his palm, and gently held it, ready to find a place for this person to be buried.
"You can't bury it all."
A voice sounded beside him.
Maitreya Body was not surprised. He had long felt a Nascent Soul Cultivator standing behind him. When he turned around, he found that it was a young man, dressed Western Continent, and his skin was darker than the monk Eastern Continent.
Maitreya Body's current disguised cultivation is Nascent Soul.
"What do you call a Daoist friend?"
"Little monk Maitreya."
"My name is Tianyun, and I am the abbot of Unity Temple."
Maitreya Body was a little surprised, he heard the identity of this person - a sect monk!
Unlike Eastern Continent, Rogue Cultivator of the Western Continent still has some, but not many monks from the sect.
The reasons are complicated. To put it simply, compared to the Eastern Continent sect, Thunderclap Temple, which rules the world with Divine Way Method, is not so tolerant of other small sects.
But it's not nothing.
Some people have had the opportunity to acquire the cultivation method. If they can serve Thunderclap Temple as their master, pay tribute every year, and not compete for their faith, they can live happily in the Western Continent.
Most of the sects here also call themselves temples, temples, nunneries, etc., showing that they are subordinate branches of Thunderclap Temple.
I just want to know that it is difficult to achieve such conditions.
So Western Continent Rogue Cultivator is not much.
"Fellow Daoist is Rogue Cultivator?"
Maitreya Body Put your hands together and whisper yes.
"Fellow Daoist is very compassionate."
Maitreya Body chuckled. He couldn't say whether he was compassionate or not. He believed that the same would happen when the main body came. To put it bluntly, for the main body who received education at Modern World, this was just a relatively basic thing that hurt its own kind.
"But you can't bury it all."
Maitreya Body was silent for a moment and asked, "How many people like this are there?"
"More." Tianyun said with certainty, "Those who have family are fine, but those who don't have family can only do this."
Maitreya Body shook his head and said, "Whether I can bury it completely or not, I'm not attached to it, I just encountered it."
After saying that, he walked towards the outside of the city.
Tianyun seemed to be a little interested in him. Along the way, Maitreya Body realized what he meant by talking too much. The two came across three more corpses, so they simply took them together to the mass grave outside the city.
Maitreya Body buried several people without erecting monuments. He just looked at the mounds in silence for a while.
"Why is this so?"
Maitreya Body turned around and asked Tianyun.
In his memory, Thunderclap Temple's ordinary life was actually pretty good.
The scene in front of me was obviously not like that.
"Maitreya, fellow Daoist, don't know?"
But Tianyun looked very surprised.
"What?"
"Now the whole Western Continent is like this."
Maitreya was shocked in his heart, but kept a calm expression on his face. "I have been in seclusion for many years, and I only came out recently."
Tianyun nodded lightly, never thinking that Maitreya would be an outsider - after all, Great Vajra Dharma Realm was still here, and outsiders couldn't come in.
"Then Maitreya fellow Daoist has missed a lot of things."
Abbot Tianyun led Maitreya Body towards Flowing Wave City, and his tone of voice was unpredictable.
"Please also ask fellow Daoist to inform you."
Abbot Tianyun did not hide anything. He first told what Maitreya Body knew - Great Luo Dharma Assembly.
Maitreya Body knows more about this matter than he does. He even knows that most of what Tianyun said are rumors and are inconsistent with the reality. For example, in the story, I have become an evil demon who destroys the order of heaven and earth and attempts to tamper with Buddhism.
Maitreya Body didn't show any abnormality, he just listened quietly.
"After that, there were rumors that because Zheng Fa had confused Western Continent's people's hearts and caused Buddhism to become dusty, the end of the world was coming and Wheel-Turning Sage King would come to the world to unify Western Continent and revive Buddhism."
This pot is quite big.
Maitreya Body smiled secretly in his heart and asked curiously, "Who is Wheel-Turning Sage King?"
"No one knows, everyone thinks it's them." Abbot Tianyun said with a bitter look on his face, "Including four Buddha Ancestor"
Only then did Maitreya Body understand that this Wheel-Turning Sage King was probably not the Future Buddha that Han Yu said.
Wheel-Turning Sage King is probably the path to enlightenment for Future Buddha.
"How could Flowing Wave City----"
"You will know if you come with me." Abbot Tianyun seemed a little afraid and did not answer directly. Instead, he led Maitreya Body into the city.
When he reached a place, he winked at Maitreya Body and disappeared.
Maitreya Body also hid, and the two took a few steps forward. Maitreya Body was startled - he suspected that the entire Flowing Wave City people were here!
This is where Flowing Wave City Thunderclap Branch Temple is located.
This temple is originally built magnificently, with three pagodas in front of the temple and an extremely wide square under the pagodas.
At this time, the square was full of people kneeling in rows and rows.
They held the dishes above their heads with both hands.
There are monks carrying buckets and spoons in their hands, spoon by spoon, pouring food into these ordinary bowls and plates, just like feeding pigs.
In Maitreya Body's view, these meals are not large in portion, are definitely not nutritious, and even taste bad.
It's just that Thunderclap Temple was willing to give food to these mortals, which still surprised him.
Thunderclap Temple is so kind, how could Flowing Wave City's situation be so bad?
Tianyun didn't say anything, but tugged on Maitreya Body's sleeve and motioned for him to follow her.
The two walked into the main hall of the temple.
The furnishings in the main hall have changed. The Buddha statue Lu Mo has disappeared, replaced by two Buddha statues standing side by side.
Maitreya Body also knows these two people-Eastern Glazed Buddha Ancestor, Southern Amoghasiddhi Buddha Ancestor.
Come to think of it, this Flowing Wave City is now the territory of these two.
Three incense sticks were erected in front of the two Buddha statues, and white smoke filled the entire hall.
Some ordinary people who had eaten a few mouthfuls of food in a hurry entered this place.
They may be paralyzed on the ground, their faces flushed, their eyes blurry, and they look proud.
Or they are dancing, tearing their sleeves, having a wild carnival, or even starting to have sex.
Or kowtow in front of the Buddha, which is extremely pious.
There were also a few monks in the main hall, watching from the side. Judging from their expressions, they were both indifferent and accustomed to this scene.
Even the abbot Tianyun on the side didn't seem to notice the strange appearance.
Blissful Incense----
Although Maitreya Body had some guesses for a long time, it was only now that he was really sure how Thunderclap Temple was ruling Western Continent.
The two walked out Thunderclap Temple without saying a word.
"I have an old friend."
Tianyun Abbot suddenly spoke.
"She saved my life in the early years. I am both grateful and admired for her."
He didn't even look at Maitreya Body, he just looked into the void and said.
"But my cultivation level was still low at that time. I was only Golden Core, but she was already Nascent Soul, and even more so, dao companion. The two of them had a deep relationship."
"I can't even find a chance to repay my kindness."
When Maitreya Body heard this, he really felt that he would be inspired to be compassionate. Listening to the tone of this Tianyun True Person, he was regretful. It was obvious that he was not just unable to repay the kindness.
"It's just that things in the world are unpredictable. Unfortunately, she and her husband passed away that year. Before their death, they only left an only son."
"She left me a letter, saying that she didn't dare to ask me for anything. She just asked that if Lineage was in trouble and if I had some spare energy, she could help me, it would be nice to leave Incense Power."
Tianyun Abbot continued, "Although I am not a kind person, my life-saving grace must not be forgotten."
"It's just that although her only son has no cultivation qualifications, he is not short of money. It is not difficult to live a stable life in Flowing Wave City, and his life is going smoothly."
"There is only one regret. This family has only one generation for four generations, and there is only one woman in this generation."
Maitreya Body still didn't understand why Tianyun mentioned this matter to him, a person he had just met for a short time, for no reason, but when he saw his face was heavy, he did not interrupt.
"I'm also busy with my practice and have other affairs in the temple, so I only pay attention to this clan every three to five years."
Maitreya Body nodded and said, "Fellow Daoist, you can be regarded as a person who values love and keeps his word for so many years."
"Keep your promise?" Unexpectedly, Abbot Tianyun laughed at himself, "But his family is unique.
"Absolutely?"
Maitreya Body was stunned.
"The parents of this family, just like these mortals, are addicted to the evil fragrance in this temple." Tianyun's voice lowered, "They lingered in front of this temple every day, and their bodies became weaker and weaker, and they passed away one after another."
"The only daughter——she was left unattended at home earlier and fell into the well and died."
Maitreya Body listened in silence. It took him a long time before he said, "My condolences, fellow Daoist."
"Sorrow?" Tianyun abbot sneered, "Except for me, who among Thunderclap Temple feels sad?"
"This kind of thing happens in this Flowing Wave City, in this Western Continent, not just one household, but countless!"
Maitreya Body also has to admit that this is right. Blissful Incense For the monks of the Divine Way system, it is really not a bad thing.
Whether it is the high-ranking Buddha Ancestor, the middle-level disciples, or the ordinary people below, I am afraid they all love this Blissful Incense.
"But why are they like this? They don't want Incense Power anymore?"
Maitreya Body still doesn't understand. This will do great harm to the population under Thunderclap Temple's rule.
"Of course, they are just for Incense Power..." Abbot Tianyun pointed to the three pagodas, "I heard a Thunderclap Temple disciple say - the more painful the reality, the more pious they become."
"With this Blissful Incense, a mortal can provide Incense Power in one day, which is enough to compare with a normal year."
Maitreya Body slowly turned around, looking at the people kneeling in the square eating, watching them put down their plates and rush into Thunderclap Temple with joy.
For a moment, I didn't even know what to say.
Maitreya Body, who wanted to follow the mass line, felt that he was trapped in a vast sea of people's war, and it was a sea of zombies.
He felt that the main body had probably never been so weak.